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Re:Cavium Is an Arm Server Contender by nine_k on Monday November 27, 2017 @03:53PM (#15791234)
Finally, a chance to have a desktop CPU without a black-box coprocessor like Intel ME? (A quick web search did not find anything definitive about its presence / absence in Cavium.)
Re:Cavium Is an Arm Server Contender by hawski on Monday November 27, 2017 @04:23PM (#15791560)
Every ARM SoC is already a black-box containing black-boxes. That's one of the reasons why almost all SoCs are on some ancient version of Linux kernel. They will never be mainlined.